It is time to elect a world leader and your vote counts. Here are
the 3 candidates!
Associates with crooked
politicians
Consults with
astrologists
Had 2 mistresses
Chain smokes
Drinks 8-10 martinis a day
Sleeps until noon
Kicked out of office twice
Drinks a quart of whisky every morning
Used opium in college
Never has had an extramarital affair
Decorated war hero
Vegetarian
Doesn’t smoke
Drinks an occasional
beer
Candidate 1: FDR
Candidate 2: = Winston Churchill
Candidate 3:Adolf Hitler
Switzerland & Spain (neutral)
Italy takes
Albania
Czech., Austria, & E. Prussia controlled
by Germany
Pre-WWII
What about Germany & the USSR?
What event marks the
start of WWII in Europe?
Sept. 1, 1939: blitzkrieg of Poland begins
GB & France declare war on Germany
‘40: Soviets take Finland
Takes Denmark in
1 day & Norway in 2
April 9, ‘40: Hitler invades
Denmark & Norway
How so fast?
German air force
(Luftwaffe)
German “lightning war”
(Blitzkreig)
Netherlands, Belgium, & Luxembourg all surrender also
France prepares to
fight
French defense
designed to stop any
German attack across border
2 mil French soldiers
France well defended for WWI warfare,
not German blitzkrieg
Profile of the
Maginot Line
Germans go through
neutral Belgium
instead of facing
Maginot Line
France
GB
France
GB
Pinned between Germans
& English Channel
French & British trapped here by Germans
English citizens use private
fishing boats to rescue troops!
Italy declares war & attacks France from South
“I only need a few thousand dead so that I can sit at the peace conference as a man who has
fought."
June 22, ‘40
German troops march
under the Arc de
Triomphe
1941
Hitler takes Greece (24
days) & Yugoslavia (11 days)
Bulgaria, Rumania, & Hungary ally with Germany
by end of ’41
N = Neutral
N
N
N
N
NEXT?
A = Ally
A
A
A
Hitler begins bombing
raids on GBBritain’s RAF more skilled than Hitler’s
Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe: 1,200 fighters & 1,300 bombers
Only 700 fighters &
1400 pilots!
RoyalAirForce
Bomb devastation in Britain
Damage to British cities
(civilians) is high
But GB won!!
GB was saved from Nazis!
Never in thefield of humanconflict was
so much owedby so many
to so few
New Prime Minister of GB Winston Churchill